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we need to have our own orchestra our own entry music. (laughter) 2, 3, 4 is the regular meeting did san francisco small business commission it is june 8, 2017, at 524 it is televised thanks to media services and sfgovtv for televising today's meeting members of the public please silence our phones and other electronic devicess the sound like producing devicess are prohibited public comment it limited to 3 minutes per speaker unless by the officer of the meeting speakers are requested but not required to argument and the speaker cards will help with the meeting record and

additionally there's a sign-in sheet so for those who want to be added to the mailing list mr. president, item one call to order >> roll call please commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner tour-sarkissian commissioner white commissioner l. riley mr. president, you have worm shall we move on to item. >> before we move on you need to make note that commissioner adams is absent and commissioner adams is absent. >> he has an executed absent commissioner dooley. >> sheet she's not stated she's not at this time, members of the public may address the commission to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction

of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, address the commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may. >> do we have any members of the public that wants to comment on items not on tonight's agenda seeing none general comment is closed item 3 item 3 is discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the board of supervisors b o s administrative code for the cannabis legalization task force we have a presentation by jeff aid to supervisor wiener. >> thank you jeff for coming. >> if you for having me from supervisor wiener's i'll be happy to talk about the cannabis state legalization task force as you may know there are several ballot measures being circulated to legalize the cannabis in the 2016 legislation

it will likely be certain there are a ballet measure for stated legalization with that coming likely to as pa pass we don't know but we know we'll have to deal with it in san francisco and san francisco is going to have a unique set of the circumstances ensue the jurisdiction needs to start prep to supervisor wiener has proposed a legislation to propose the legalization task force tasked with planning and social and bombardment land use issued that may come up things to think about and kits it's a 22 task force but those are the departments non-voting members 15 member voting task force walk you through briefly 7 departments had or that will

be a advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. and the planning department and entertainment commission and non-city board of equalization took an from for obviously reasons. >> and the san francisco unified school district a. >> that's not a department but they're a voting member i think there might not a typo in the digest but the legislation itself 1 through 7 non-voting and seat 8 the san francisco unified school district that may include the board of education and seat 4 is someone that worked in the cannabis entry the owner of an mcd and 11 is seat 11 and 12 users of cannabis one must use them for medical reasons and the 13 is the owner

of a small business in san francisco and 14 the business interests and 15 a hospitality and tourism seat and 16 and 17 neighborhood seats and 18 a public health department advocacy phone call thinking focusing on drug and 19 is the entertainment and seat 20 for someone represents the labor unions who work in the cannabis industry and seat 21 works in the capacity and 22 a use for someone between the age 21 i building the commission commissioner over and over brighten said we have a missing piece of the language it shall be appointed by the board of supervisors. >> so is the san francisco

unified school district a voting member. >> it is up to them to today on whether they want to be or maintaining that. >> so throughout the legislation we need to change 7 to 8 and 9 to 22 a number of placements. >> yeah. >> 6 said 8 through 22 sorry. >> and so the task force will meet for a year tha they will report back to the board and mayor on the policy recommendations on you know as things move along what we should be expecting to plan for we don't want to get caught flat-footed what happens to the mcd legislation we want to be prepared as opposed to to passing in november and haven't thought about that this is about

bringing the individuals together to plan and think about what's going to happen. >> sound like a good idea any questions from you're not our supervisors but the board members. >> thank you for this presentation i have a question about this seat. >> you have a seat 18 for a public health advocacy person experienced in and the question is why not a doctor on this group physician medical doctor why is it missing. >> the reason we did focused on the policy those are the people doing the work in this area for many, many years not to say it can't be a dr. working in that area those are the folks they've worked in the mcd and worked on

medical marijuana and the cannabis and the legalization that are knowledgeable that's the reason we'll be happy to consider. >> i'm curious the doctor will be a value added in a committee like this one. >> the on that appears to be missing maybe intentional someone from the legal profession is that why there are are to attorneys. >> we were that limited in the amount of seats not an overly large it was included the department as voting seats and as it grew and concerns about putting the department employees and you mention physicians they have to h vote they may not be comfortable we reduced that number of seats but as it grew a

competitive spot. >> i'll trade you for on attorney just kidding. >> you are distancing coming up against legal issues we already are so it seems to me having someone who you know whether it is a non-voting member from the city attorney's office or a private practice attorney that has experience in this area might provide you with valuable input just as the legal issues are related come up but again, i appreciate it is a big committee but it is a big there's a lot of knots in this issue. >> i'm happy to take that recommendation and see what we can do you're right there is a lot of interested parties. >> i'm not compel clear why the

fire department is involved. >> but. >> it could be for growing issues growing. >> right. >> well, i think it is a great idea to obviously i know the seats you deem appropriate within the limits of the number of seats you can have other than that commissioners are there any another questions? >> yeah. i just. >> i read through this this morning the numbers are out of change we made amendments. >> okay. >> yes. one question the reasoning of the ones identified to be non-voting members. >> because of the city departments they're providing the expertise of the city departments and the experience at the same time, they are representing the city not voting

members and staff members and so it's to keep the onerous on the task force and make recommendations other than the individual for like the planning department staff member to be a voting member is a little bit more challenging. >> okay. >> i also read the versions some having says 19 members and some 232. >> it's 22 with 5 voting members the original was 19. >> okay any other comments or questions commissioners. >> if noted why not open up for public comment yes. >> any public comment on item this item this evening yes come on up when you're making public comment this goes out to everybody this person and everyone i have 3 minutes stay

to the 3 minutes no points 0 lost for reading. >> i'm actually, i'm richard the managing person from the health department we've been fine to chair but not chair but the administrative support a member of my staff is the public health member for this group and the question about the legal assistance and you know we already have city attorney's working with us we have an attorney and she may serve as a role to provide legal assistance or we have another city attorney ed pearson. >> you can call them to participated. >> no need to put people on the committee that don't need to be there thank you seeing none,

public comment is closed. >> we don't have this is not an action oh, it is anyone not to make a motion to support this piece of legislation. >> we'll make a motion to support. >> may i have commissioners so commissioner tour-sarkissian mentioned and medical is there either of you want to include in the motion adding an attorney or someone from the medical profession. >> yeah. i mean, we could make a recommendation to add a someone from the medical profession and maybe trade off with one of the neighborhood associations if there's- the only area there are representatives is the neighborhood association in order to get everyone represented we'll get the telephone illegal assistance as needed but maybe we have medical assistance as well. >> we do have the duplicate.

>> well, we do you again? i think you have a minute left on our time i get it's fully up to the i guess the author of the bill if they want medical assistance i don't see it is useful in terms of the people that are using it and how to affects the people that are you using the cannabis how to affect public safety and their own public health i'm not sure that someone from the public health department should be here we're representing the general mcds but >> if you want to include that in the motion as a recommendation to be considered. >> i would. >> okay. >> there's a motion should we amend the motion. >> it has not been seconded

yet. >> so if i heard correctly we i'd like to make a motion to pass this legislation with the recommendation that a medical - >> doctor. >> doctor be addressed. >> be considered for the seat. >> as an additional to the voting membership and in addition to the voting membership thank you. >> do we have a second. >> okay. >> i'm sorry your seconded. >> commissioner l. riley. >> commissioner l. riley and quick roll call. >> commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena commissioner tour-sarkissian shall we move on to. >> oh, you need to also ask

commissioner white and commissioner l. riley even though they made the motion. >> commissioner white commissioner l. riley. >> thank you if i didn't know we'd start to worry about you all right this passes. >> thanks jeff. >> okay. let's anyone on to item 4. >> it is deduction and possible action to make recommendations go to the board of supervisors on b o s file resolution of intention dog patch and northwest potrero hill and jonathan gave a wonderful presentation. >> thank you commissioner dwight and fellow commissioners i'm jonathan goldberg the manager with the public utilities commission for a bit of. >> primer ged's are land

seeking improvements and maintenance district i - they were conceived by the form neighborhood park council and championed by supervisor cowen community activist and local developers and they a program model on oh, my god program grant with the public grant and capital improvements and a local transparent and citizens fought tool that will help shepherd tools in the neighborhood in addition to the ged tools were marketing and economic development those district are significant because of their ability to leverage both public and private investments in the public realm supporting local decision making and affordability and supplementing the city's often -

well. >> underfunded. >> yeah. >> supplementing the city the ged is under the formation of the dog patch and the west castro hill that has broad baseds owner and developer support is it is approximately 1882 paralyze that are approximately because development is it ongoing in the district and the parcels currently being divided for condo development annual budget is half million dollars a year with thirty percent on public realm street trees and space cleansing and thorough capital improvements new playground equipment and tree lighting and signage another quarter of the budget is communication marketing website development and 15 percent con

city operations the petition targeted of thirty percent was made on intuitively and going for the board of supervisors for tomorrow this initiated a 45 day ballot period conducting on july 2014 the district will be formed and the baseline services agreement will be worked out with the city the nonprofit assessment entity will be formed and assessments will be or assessment bills will be mailed out no november and december and collected by the city and services will begin in january of 2016 the district will be levy i didn't do for a 10 year term and hopefully more down the pipeline and this is great thanks yourself work this is the first green benefit district in the united states

and we're familiar with cv d we know of merchant corridors in san francisco this allows the residents and the businesses to make direct investment isn't green space and the common space and tyler defined in the benefits district we all love it if our tax-paid for all the improvements that we need and want we know that is not the case and not practice this is the case to allow the neighborhoods specifics areas to make specific investments in the infrastructure and accident shared investment and i happen to be a property owner subsistence a small business and support it its a great effort it's a lot of hard work with the first of its kind and you can write a nice article about it

and get it published. >> thank you for your support. >> commissioner or so any questions about the ged. >> so it works are the property owners assessed and it's an property assessment so the you know any sort of controversies arises from people that say hey, i'm paying my tax why additional taxed it is a practical matter so you know probably won't pass unanimously but a certain percent from the property owners in my case i'm and i a resident owner i have a vote by some landlords my happens to be a san francisco resident that is supportive of it so there's been a process of sort of a preballot and an official ballot the

preballot is there's enough interest to move forward and supervisor cowen is the sponsor and there's interest in further in bayview as well and we sent a letter to all of the supervisors districts saying here this is an open source and here's how you do it if you want to learn more watch and lower than. >> great. >> oh, any other questions or comments for jonathan? oh, commissioner ortiz-cartagena >> commissioner please. i've been involved with cv d in other neighborhoods i'm glad it passed but for my sake of argument what's the biggest opposition besides the money portion that land towards. >> one of the biggest issued to

date has been one thing that commissioner dwight mentioned about the remote certain landlord and while in the community benefit district a stronger correlation between the amenity provides water for the public realm i guess the increased vacancy rate or hold over rates in certain commercial corridors greater interests in bringing businesses to an area that is well maintained you know there's a much greater property owner and business participation in the business district with the conflict of the benefits district it polaroid appeals to people with local addresses but people that live in southern california or washington this is a completely ne